I am 66 years old. I have been fighting the "rear bag" wars for a long time (maybe 40 years). Anytime I am off the bench, it has been stacked bags, rolled jackets, a fisted hand on top of a stack of rocks.... You get the idea.
Recently I saw a thread that talked about a rear rest made by a US company called Bipod Buddy. I watched the videos, I read the sales pitch, and under the "why not" paragraph of my "shooter charter", I ordered the small double cross.
I figured it would take a week to get to me in Virginia. It arrived in two days (at no additional charge). It is well made and very well finished. The only assembly was the locking lever with it's two washers.
To the range to see if it works for me. I used a shooting bench for this first introduction. I brought my 300 RUM (an older REM PSS with a 7MTU Hawk Hills barrel). I use a GGG bipod on a short rail for the front and placed the double cross under the rear.
It took me a couple of minutes to find a setting that would work at the 100 yards I was shooting. I proceeded to shoot 3 shot groups that were as good as the bench rest groups I shoot with the same gun. AMAZING product. Easy to work with rear rest that is rock solid and completely adjustable. I will need to work with it to become more comfortable with setup. I found that I just needed to get close, then lean or move up and down the butt stock to get that last bit of adjustment.
I am sold. I will be using this in the next couple of weeks for some long range "old guy" fun shoots. No more stacked bags for me. Only thing I found was covered in the product info. The double-cross will "squat down" on you if you place too much down pressure on the butt stock. I really needed to tighten the lock lever to keep it in place. Again, I knew this up front from the literature on the web site.
I can't wait to try it for our "unknown distance" matches later this month. The elevation and distance changes can make rear bag use rough sometimes. I think this will be a secret weapon.
thanks rch
Recently I saw a thread that talked about a rear rest made by a US company called Bipod Buddy. I watched the videos, I read the sales pitch, and under the "why not" paragraph of my "shooter charter", I ordered the small double cross.
I figured it would take a week to get to me in Virginia. It arrived in two days (at no additional charge). It is well made and very well finished. The only assembly was the locking lever with it's two washers.
To the range to see if it works for me. I used a shooting bench for this first introduction. I brought my 300 RUM (an older REM PSS with a 7MTU Hawk Hills barrel). I use a GGG bipod on a short rail for the front and placed the double cross under the rear.
It took me a couple of minutes to find a setting that would work at the 100 yards I was shooting. I proceeded to shoot 3 shot groups that were as good as the bench rest groups I shoot with the same gun. AMAZING product. Easy to work with rear rest that is rock solid and completely adjustable. I will need to work with it to become more comfortable with setup. I found that I just needed to get close, then lean or move up and down the butt stock to get that last bit of adjustment.
I am sold. I will be using this in the next couple of weeks for some long range "old guy" fun shoots. No more stacked bags for me. Only thing I found was covered in the product info. The double-cross will "squat down" on you if you place too much down pressure on the butt stock. I really needed to tighten the lock lever to keep it in place. Again, I knew this up front from the literature on the web site.
I can't wait to try it for our "unknown distance" matches later this month. The elevation and distance changes can make rear bag use rough sometimes. I think this will be a secret weapon.
thanks rch
